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stockton. and thanks to the entire panel. so i'm going to ask a couple of questions but would encourage all of you guys, this should be interactive, and you all have sick of -- you all are sick of hearing from me, and we'd rather hear from you. i'll get a chance to call on you. paul, i'm going to start with you just to unpack a little bit more some of your experiences that i alluded to in working with the electric sector following superstorm sandy. i think it came up in the previous panel, doug myers said mutual assistance is in our dna, and i think that's a true story. you know, you see events like what happened in the gulf with the deepwater with horizon, and it was really a government-led response whereas you see something like superstorm sandy, and folks from the east coast -- or from the west coast and all over were sending crews to the northeast facilitated and supported by the government. can you talk a little bit about your experiences through that and how that may have helped and maybe some of the things that it tran
stockton. and thanks to the entire panel. so i'm going to ask a couple of questions but would encourage all of you guys, this should be interactive, and you all have sick of -- you all are sick of hearing from me, and we'd rather hear from you. i'll get a chance to call on you. paul, i'm going to start with you just to unpack a little bit more some of your experiences that i alluded to in working with the electric sector following superstorm sandy. i think it came up in the previous panel, doug...
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david stockton outlined a strategy in the 1980's. evenight wing noted that through republican presidents like eisenhower and nixon, you could not cut popular programs like social security or medicare. and government grew at a slower rate. they can love with a strategy of starving the bees. -- they came up with a strategy of starving. the starving -- they huge deficits sta up with a strategy of rving the beast. creating huge deficits. republicans deny care about deficit at all -- do not care about deficits at all. what they do care about is cutting government. to quote grover norquist, it can b t in a bath tu [indiscernible] they call it something else but it would destroy both programs. their goal is to destroy government. corporations paid on average 40% of profits for taxes. arey large corporations 12ing about fall% -- about %. they ryan budget would lower that further. millionaires with a $200,000 tax cut -- would get a 200,000 todollar tax curt. t. host: a tweet -- is true.at if you looked at the budget, we have not had in the gr
david stockton outlined a strategy in the 1980's. evenight wing noted that through republican presidents like eisenhower and nixon, you could not cut popular programs like social security or medicare. and government grew at a slower rate. they can love with a strategy of starving the bees. -- they came up with a strategy of starving. the starving -- they huge deficits sta up with a strategy of rving the beast. creating huge deficits. republicans deny care about deficit at all -- do not care...
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hrough the san joaquin river where international trade goes to the port of san francisco and port of stockton. because like illinois and the great midwest, we have a vast agricultural economy here in the central valley of california and a lot of that, particularly rice, goes out of the port of stockton and sacramento. both of those ports have channels that are sin sufficient depth to bring in the large ships. the cost of shipping, we have small ships that can't carry a full cargoo because of the depth of the channel. it gets more expensive. so in this area, channel maintenance, port of oakland, channel maintainance for the where f sacramento and the oil tankers come and go. further south, monterey, which is famous, pebble beach. and then you get down to los angeles, and the two great harbors of america side by side together form the largest harbor system in this nation and you can argue whether it's the largest in the world. the port of los angeles, represented by congresswoman hahn and port of long beach, side by side there in the los angeles area, long beach represented by mr. lowenthal. th
hrough the san joaquin river where international trade goes to the port of san francisco and port of stockton. because like illinois and the great midwest, we have a vast agricultural economy here in the central valley of california and a lot of that, particularly rice, goes out of the port of stockton and sacramento. both of those ports have channels that are sin sufficient depth to bring in the large ships. the cost of shipping, we have small ships that can't carry a full cargoo because of...
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>> so, stockton almost 100% white. they didn't have a race data for the kids that are transferring, but there has to be some integration i would think because trenton is a majority-minority school district. it could be that there's some light. i can be interesting to take a look at the race numbers, and that's a good question. >> so i want to talk about race in small districts. and in the report, we talk about an airy, north carolina county, where there are three different school districts, two of them heavily black, and one majority white. i mean, i take it race is the reason they were created. i know you live in north carolina, and i think you live near that area state i live near that area but it's a very, very, very hot issue and that county, and, in fact, in the state, the county has three school districts but most of the districts in north carolina our countywide districts. this tony has three school districts. so smaller school district is probably 90, 95, 97% african-american. and then there's the county distri
>> so, stockton almost 100% white. they didn't have a race data for the kids that are transferring, but there has to be some integration i would think because trenton is a majority-minority school district. it could be that there's some light. i can be interesting to take a look at the race numbers, and that's a good question. >> so i want to talk about race in small districts. and in the report, we talk about an airy, north carolina county, where there are three different school...
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mentioned some the recent events that the atf has been involved in from newton, boston, west, texas, to stockton. we will continue to do our job. should the senate confirm my appointment, i look forward to leading these men and women permanently and to help them carry out this very important mission. i look forward to answering your questions, thank you. have aooks like you happy family behind you there. >> thank you, madame chairwoman. to appear honored before you today as the nominee to be assistant attorney general for the civil division and i thank you for your consideration. i would like to thank the president for nominating me and the attorney general for his support. i have a number of family members here today and with the chair's invitation, i would like to introduce them. >> please do. i think i can tell who they are. >> first, my partner richard. i would not be here without the support he has given me over the last 20 years as we were classmates in law school. in addition to being a great father, he's a terrific lawyer and i have been improved by his intelligence, judgment, justice.,
mentioned some the recent events that the atf has been involved in from newton, boston, west, texas, to stockton. we will continue to do our job. should the senate confirm my appointment, i look forward to leading these men and women permanently and to help them carry out this very important mission. i look forward to answering your questions, thank you. have aooks like you happy family behind you there. >> thank you, madame chairwoman. to appear honored before you today as the nominee to...
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there were some amazing predictions done by hillary stockton, who is a scientist who looked up the barrier dunes along the northeast coast, and she predicted x marks the start with amazing accuracy of exactly which dunes would be breached and where the storm was going to go right through and inundates the coast. because of how good the models have become. and she did another prediction after the storm of because of the loss of barrier islands, because how much they eroded, how much protection they offer now going into the future for future storms, and it turns out now for the next storm, even if it is not a superstar, even if it is a run-of-the-mill nor'easter, a number of breaches and inland coastal flooding will be widespread for the northeast because of the loss of that protection, so we have crossed already a threshold, even though sea level has not increased a lot between last october and now just because of superstorm sandy. superstorm sandy was a threshold for the northeast, and we crossed it. >> marcia will be heading to monterey after her service, so i want to congratulate her and
there were some amazing predictions done by hillary stockton, who is a scientist who looked up the barrier dunes along the northeast coast, and she predicted x marks the start with amazing accuracy of exactly which dunes would be breached and where the storm was going to go right through and inundates the coast. because of how good the models have become. and she did another prediction after the storm of because of the loss of barrier islands, because how much they eroded, how much protection...